If the Chancellor wants to tinker with the tax system to give the economy a lift, maybe the 50p top rate of income tax for those earning more than £150,000 shouldn't be the first thing in his sights... more
EXCLUSIVE: Revival of the enterprise zones championed by Margaret Thatcher is being drawn up for a 'Budget for growth' in March, the Standard has learned... more
Communists say they planted a bomb at a hotel where they claimed senior bankers and politicians were staying for the World Economic Forum in Davos... more
Banks risk posing a "serious threat" to the real economy by shrinking credit to meet tougher capital requirements, senior Morgan Stanley banker warns the Davos summit... more
The chief of the OECD world economic group has urges the Government to stick to its deficit-cutting plans, saying he believes inflation is under control
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Novelist Betsy Tobin tells Alison Roberts how she prefers focusing on the murky world of Chinese people-smugglers to fitting the stereotype of a pampered City wife ... more
While Alan Johnson wanted the 50% top rate of tax to be regarded as temporary, his successor as shadow chancellor Ed Balls favours keeping it and seeing it kick in at a lower threshold than the present £150,000... more
Bankers stand shoulder-to-shoulder at the World Economic Forum in Davos to try to prevent a scatter-gun approach to new financial regulation by different countries... more
London was today declared the leading financial centre in the world despite the global crisis which has battered the City and turned bankers into pariahs ... more
Britain has overtaken the United States in a survey of the world’s leading financial centres — but in part because the financial sector here is so large relative to the rest of the economy... more
Sir Martin Sorrell, dubbed the Sage of Soho for his views on the economy, warned he has yet to see signs of a sustainable upturn and there is little hope of a return to booming growth any time soon. ... more
You can sense that Stephanie Flanders does not suffer fools gladly. Colleagues describe her as imperious and scary. She doesn't like clichés much either. "The phrase 'green shoots' is the bane of my life," she says, wrinkling her nose ... more
So Labour is to put up candidates for the City of London Corporation elections. Labour says it wants to "highlight what is wrong with the established governance of the City of London, and how its largely unaccountable leaders have brought Britain to recession"... more
Gordon Brown speaks at the World Economic Forum in Davos today amid further signs of the economic and political damage wreaked by the recession... more
Economics: As the world’s richest and most powerful executives fly out to the luxury Alpine resort of Davos, the hotels and restaurants hosting their glittering parties and dinners are braced for chill economic winds... more
Saudi Arabia's decision to increase oil production by 300,000 barrels a day in June will not help lower the price of crude, Iraq's oil minister Hussain al-Shahristani claims... more
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